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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 8095462, member: 82616&quot;]My latest addition is an extremely rare Judaean bronze struck under Agrippa II for Titus. I purchased the piece just in time for Hanukkah, a most appropriate time of year to add a coin from the Holy Land!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1407261[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Titus [Agrippa II]</b></p><p>Æ27, 14.92g</p><p>Caesarea Paneas mint, 89-90 AD</p><p>Obv: ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΤΙΤW ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ϹƐΒΑϹΤW; Head of Titus, laureate, r.</p><p>Rev: ΕΤΟΥ - Λ ΒΑ / ΑΓΡΙ-ΠΠΑ; Tyche with kalathos standing, l., holding cornucopia and two corn-ears</p><p>RPC 2293 (0 spec.). Hendin 1295* corr.</p><p>Acquired from Forvm Ancient Coins, November 2021.</p><p><br /></p><p>Agrippa II sporadically struck coinage for the Flavian dynasty throughout his long reign. The coins circulated within his kingdom (Northern Palestine) and were likely coined at Caesaera Panesa, although the mint is not certain (Hendin places it at Caesarea Maritima). Confusingly, Agrippa&#039;s mint(s) employed two different dating eras for his coinage - one starting in 56 and the second in 60 or 61. This rare bronze struck in the name of Titus is dated regnal year 30 by the second era and was produced posthumously(?) in either 89 or 90 AD under Domitian. RPC sums up the problem - &#039;The present chronology adopts the date of AD 60/1 for year 1 of the era used by Agrippa II, which solves a number of issues but gives the problem of having large number of issues of posthumous coinage for Vespasian and Titus.&#039; There is no easy solution to the chronology puzzle and for now we have to assume this coin was struck posthumously under Domitian for Titus lacking any reference to his divine status.</p><p><br /></p><p>It must be noted that David Hendin does not adopt this chronology and instead dates the series from the first era, although he places the start in 49 rather than 56, based on the Kushnir-Stein chronology. If that is the case this coin would date to 78-79 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>*The Hendin reference incorrectly describes this as a draped bust.</p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to post any seasonally appropriate coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for looking![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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